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rated so that it was not very strong. I sowed one half of 

 that field with winter wheat and one half with rye. I had 

 nine bushels of rye and fourteen of wheat^ — as fine wheat as 

 I ever saw. I seeded it with this southern clover and where 

 the wheat was I had a good crop of herbage — English grasses 

 and white and red clover — and not a particle where the rye 

 was ; yet it was tilled all alike. That is one of the facts 

 which leads me to say that wheat prepares the ground for the 

 grass crop. That lot then lay about four years more. I then 

 ploughed it up and put on about ten cart-loads of manure, 

 and I had twenty bushels of as fine wheat as I ever saw. 

 That lot lay about anotlier term of four years and I then 

 planted it with corn, and had about sixty bushels, and per- 

 haps carried on twenty loads of manure. Another experi- 

 ment I sliall try, if I live and have my health. I sliall plant 

 that lot without a particle of manure, and if I do not get 

 seventy-five bushels of corn I shall be disappointed. 



Mr. George Sanger, of Canterbury. I do not feel like 

 occupying much of the time. I would rather hear from 

 others tlian speak myself; but I felt yesterday, and I have 

 felt to-day, that we have failed to get out the practical experi- 

 ence of different farmers in different localities, which I have 

 no doubt gentlemen here present are very desirous to 

 hear. We have been very much entertained by the essays 

 which have been read on the various subjects, but wo would 

 like to. know what is the practice in different parts of the 

 State in reference to these different cereals. And so, also, 

 with regard to potatoes ; I am desirous that there shall be 

 something more said on that subject. I will only occupy a 

 few moments in regard to the question now before us. 



The cultivation of Avheat is pretty much out of the ques- 

 tion in this part of the State. I have been told by some here 

 present from the western part of the State, that it is a com- 

 mon crop there, but very few, if any, farmers within my 

 knowledge undertake to raise wheat here at the present time. 

 But there are a great many among us who believe that rye is 

 one of our most valuable crops, and it is becoming increas- 

 ingly so, from the fact of the high price that the straw brings, 

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